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title: The only human sounds that the Parrot could bawl out were, “Come, le… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The only human sounds that the Parrot could bawl out were, “Come, let us be men!” Who acts: Parrot, men. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 4

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The only human sounds that the Parrot could bawl out were, “Come, let us be men!”

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**Who acts:** Parrot, men · **What happens:** bawl out, come, let, be · **To what, where:** only human sounds, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parrot, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:9:4
# text = The only human sounds that the Parrot could bawl out were, “Come, let us be men!”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	bawl	bawl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bawl out** *speech: other* | could | the Parrot | the only human sounds |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | past | the Parrot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Parrot *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | infinitive | men |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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